AP Home, Creative Writing Home Every now and then somebody asks me, "What do English teachers read, anyway?" The answer is we read the same sorts of things other people read. I go for a combination of books that I'm considering teaching or that deepen my understanding of what I teach, along with a lot of nonfiction and mystery/thrillers. I also read lots of newspaper and magazine articles.
Here is my book list with what I've finished most recently at the top. If you read any of these on your own, let me know. I would enjoy hearing what you think. Or check out my reading history and "shelf" (plan to read, am reading, have read) at www.shelfari.com/wordsmithtutor.
Summer 2013 The 5th Wave A Question of Blood, Ian Rankin The Hanging Gardens, Ian Rankin Eleanor and Park, Rainbow Rowell The Redeemer, Jo Nesbo Inferno, Dan Brown Tenth of December, George Saunders
Silver Linings Playbook, Matthew Quick
The Systematic Design of Instruction, Dick and Carey
Spring 2013
The Bat, Jo Nesbo
Finding Your Element, Dr. Ken Robinson
Daring Greatly, Brene Brown
Every Day, David Levithan
Sixpence House, Paul Collins
We the Animals, Justin Torres
Suspect, Robert Crais
Fortytude, Sarah Brokaw
Kinsey and Me, Sue Grafton
Crossed, Allie Condie Winter 2012-13
Brain on Fire, Susannah Callahan
Cold Hit, Stephen J. Cannell
Monkey Mind, Daniel Smith
An Abundance of Katherine's, John Green
The Lineup,Otto Penzi
Origins, Jessica Khoury
The Nightmare, Lars Keplar
Designated Fat Girl
The Uninvited Guests, Sadie Jones
The Ice Station, Matt Reilly
The Lifeboat, Charlotte Rogan
A Rule Against Murder, Louise Penny
A Beautiful Mystery, Louise Penny
The Black Box, Michael Connelly
The Third Gate, Lincoln Child
Lost at Sea, Jon Ronson
The Art Forger, B.A. Shapiro
Blind Goddess, Anne Holt
In One Person, John Irving
The Other Woman, Hank Phillips
Quiet, Susan Cain
The Bone Bed, Patricia Cornwell
Two Graves, Preston & Child
Beautiful Ruins, Jess Walter
Escaping Into the Open: Writing True, Elizabeth Berg
Radio Shangri-La, Jo Napoli
Phantom, Jo Nesbo
Book Love, Penny Kittle
The Lover's Dictionary, David Levitan
Fall 2012
Zoo, James Patterson
You Are Not So Smart
Night Watch, Linda Fairstein
A Wanted Man, Lee Child Last to Die, Tess Gerritsen Bones are Forever, Kathy Reichs The Rise of the Governor, Robert Kirkman Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe (reread) Baking Cakes in Kigali, Gaile Parkin (reread) Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton (reread) Kaffir Boy, Mark Mathabane (reread) Winter's Tales, Isak Dinesen Storm of Swords, George RR Martin (well that took a long time) Defending Jacob How to Be a Woman, Catitlin Moran
Summer 2012
Criminal, Karin Slaughter
Metaphors & Analogies, Rick Wormeli
Text Complexity: Raising RIgor in Reading, Nancy Frey
Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
Wild, Cheryl Strayed
Thinking Fast and Slow,
The Secret Life of Pronouns, James Pennebaker The Red Book, The Shallows (reread), Nick Carr The Language of Flowers, Vanessa Diffenbaugh The Book of Lost Fragrances, MJ Rose Pathways to the Common Core (reread), Lucy Calkins Common Core Curriculum Maps (reread), English Language Arts The Leopard, Jo Nesbo The Columbus Affair, Steve Berry The Jefferson Key, Steve Berry The Lantern, The Emperor's Children, Claire Messup Nemesis, Jo Nesbo The Little Blue Book, George Lakoff The Woodcutter, Reginald Hill Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself, Alan Alda The Storytelliing Animal: How Stories Make Us Human, Gottschlatt Caught, Harlan Coben Vigilante, Stephen J. Cannell Slipping Into Paradise: Why I Live in New Zealand Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe Kaffir Boy, Mark Mathabane Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton Imagine, Jonathan Lehrer Say Goodbye, Lisa Gardner The Delilah Complex, MJ Rose Jake, Reinvented, Gordon Korman The Headhunters, Jo Nesbo Tolstoy and the Purple Chair
Spring 2012 (plus summer reading vetting)
Excavation, James Rollins
The Death Cure, James Dashner
Pathway to the Common Core, Lucy Calkins
Amazonia, James Rollins
Ice Hunt, James Rollins
Gun Games, Faye Kellerman
The Scorch Trials, James Dashner
The Devil Colony, James Rollins
A Clash of Kings, George RR Martin
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, Mindy Kaling
The Breaking Point, Susan Shellenbarger
Heat Rises, Richard Castle
Victims, Jonathan Kellerman
My African Diary, Bill Bryson
52 Small Changes, Brett Blumenthal
Cohesive Writing, Carol Jago
Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi (reread)
Straight on till Morning, Mary Lovell (reread)
West With the Night, Beryl Markham (reread)
Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen (reread)
Baking Cakes in Kigali (reread), Gail Parkin Text Lesson Content Area Reading, Harvey Daniels So What Do They Really Know?, Cris Tovani Content Area Writing, Jim Burke Darkness, My Old Friend, Lisa Unger Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, Alexandra Fuller Lost in Shangri-La, Michael Zuckoff Focus, Mike A Long Way Gone (reread), Ishmael Beah I am Nujood, Age 10, Divorced, Nujood Ali The Bookseller of Kabul (reread), Asne Seierstad The Kite Runner (reread), Khaled Hosseini And Then There Were None (reread), Agatha Christie The Devil's Star, Jo Nesbo Children of the Storm, Elizabeth Peters The Drop, Michael Connelly Effective Instruction, Jim Burke Write Like This: Teaching Real World Writing Through Model and Mentor Texts, Kelly Gallagher Drama: An Actor's Education, John Lithgow The Maze Runner, J. Dashner
Winter 2011-2012 Strip Jack, Ian Rankin 1222, Anne Holt Red Mist, Patricia Cornwell Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire, Rafe Esquith V is for Vengeance, Sue Grafton Explosive Eighteen, Janet Evanovich Knots and Crosses, Ian Rankin Altar of Eden, James Rollins I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar Tooth and Nail, Ian Rankin Evil at Heart, Chelsea Cain If Chins Could Kill, Bruce Campbell The Black Book, Ian Rankin Cold Vengenace, Richard Preston and Lincoln Child I Am Half Sick of Shadows, Alan Bradley The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern Stories I Only Tell My Friends, Rob Lowe Miss Perregrine's Home for Peculiar Children That is All, John Hodgman The Litigators, John Grisham
Fall 2011
Ms. Hempel Chronicles,
The Ghost Writer, Robert Harris
Tomb of the Golden Bird, Elizabeth Peters
One False Move, Harlan Coben
The Hypnotist, Lars Kepler
Unspeak, Stephen Poole
Doing School
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Guardian of the Horizon, Elizabeth Peters
51/50 The Magical Adventures of a Single Life, Kristen McGuiness The Family Fang Before I Go To Sleep, Watson The Golden One, Elizabeth Peters
Summer 2011
He Thunders in the Sky, Elizabeth Peters
More Six-Word Memoirs, Smith Magazine
Smokin' Seventeen, Janet Evanovich
The Happiness Project, Gretchen
The Paris Wife
Background Knowledge, Fisher and Frey
Teaching Argument Writing, George Hillocks, Jr
The Fifth Witness, Michael Connelly
With Rigor for All: Teaching Reading and the Common Core Standards 2nd ed., Carol Jago
If You Ask Me (and you won't), Betty White
The Ice Princes, Camilla
The Falcon at the Portal, Elizabeth Peters
Baking Cakes in Kigali, Gaile Parkin
Teaching English by Design, Peter Smagorinsky
Crossing the Heart of Africa, Julian
The Snowman, Jo Nesbo
The Silent Girl, Tess Gerritsen
The Curse of the Pharoahs, Elizabeth Peters
State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
Hold Tight, Harlan Coben
Seeing a Large Cat, Elizabeth Peters
Back Spin, Harlan Coben
Sixkill, Robert Parker
The Emperor's Tomb, Steve Berry
The Weird Sisters, Eleanor Brown
Fallen, Karin Slaughter
Sandstorm, James Rollins
Moonwalking with Einstein, Foer
Damages, Alex Kava
Gideon's Sword, Preston and Child
A Red Herring Without Mustard, Alan Bradley
Bossypants, Tina Fey
The Psychopath Test, Jon Ronson
This is a Book, Demetri Martin
Late Spring 2011
The Mummy Case, Elizabeth Peters
The Hippopotomus Pool, Elizabeth Peters
The Curse of the Pharoahs, Elizabeth Peters
The Last Camel Dies at Noon, Elizabeth Peters
127 Hours Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Aron Ralston
SO Many Books, SO Little Time, Sara Nelson
Spring 2011 (and Summer Reading vetting)
Naked Heat, Richard Castle
Matched, Allison Condie
The Kind Diet, Alicia Silverstone
One False Move, Alex Kava
Just One Look, Harlan Coben
Crocodile on the Sandbank, Elizabeth Peters
The Deeds of the Disturber, Elizabeth Peters
The Ape Who Guards the Balance, Elizabeth Peters
The Lion in the Valley, Elizabeth Peters
The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog, Elizabeth Peters
The Serpent on the Crown, Elizabeth Peters
Mystery, Jonathan Kellerman
The Scarpetta Factor, Patricia Cornwell
Exposed, Alex Kava
The Sentry, Robert Crais
A Necessary Evil, Alex Kava
The Soul Catcher, Alex Kava
The Strain, Guillermo Del Toro
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
Unbroken, Lauren Hillebrand
The Murder of King Tut, James Patterson
I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I want to be Your Class President, Josh Lieb
Theater Geek, Mickey Rapkin
The Inner Circle, Brad Meltzer
Map of Bones, James Rollins
Winter 2010-2011
Split Second, Alex Kava
A Perfect Evil, Alex Kava
Wire in the Blood, Val McDermid
Packing for Mars, Mary Roach
Mermaid's Singing, Val McDermid
Black Order, James Rollins
Ice Cold, Tess Gerritsen
The Hypnotist, MJ Rose
Haunt Me Still, Jennifer Lee Carrell Book Lust to Go, Nancy Pearl More Book Lust, Nancy Pearl Gravity, Tess Gerritsen
Bloodstream, Tess Gerritsen
The Keepsake, Tess Gerritsen
The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag, Alan Bradley
Tools & Texts, Jim Burke
The Prince of Mists, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Alice I Have Been,
Reading for Themselves, Deborah Appleman
The Bone Garden, Tess Gerritsen
Ape House, Sara Gruen
The Mephisto Club, Tess Gerritsen
Vanish, Tess Gerritsen
The Sinner, Tess Gerritsen
Worth Dying For, Lee Child
The Crossing Places
The Apprentice, Tess Gerritsen
The Surgeon, Tess Gerritsen
Reversal, Michael Connelly
Life Support, Tess Gerritsen
Testimony, Anita Shreve
Image Grammar
Voice Lessons
Night Sins, Tami Hoag
The Wave, Susan Casey
Virals, Kathy Reichs
Fall 2010
Live to Tell, Lisa Gardner
Unbearable Lightness, Portia deRossi
Liar's Lullaby, Meg Gardiner
Dexter is Delicious, Jeff Lindsay
i know i am but what are you?, Samantha Bee
The Magicians, Lev Grossman
Slave, Mende Nazer
Sizzling Sixteen, Janet Evanovich
The Shallows, Nick Carr
Body Work, Sara Paretsky
Dirty Sexy Politics, Megan McCain
Faithless, Karin Slaughter Hangman, Faye KellermanIndelible, Karin SlaughterLet the Great World Spin, ColinA Cold Fear, Karin SlaughterMockingjay, Suzanne CollinsSpider Bones, Kathy ReichsShutter Island, Dennis Lehane (reread)The Liar's Club, Mary KarrCatching Fire, Suzanne Collins Summer 2010
Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett
Crafting Expository Argument, Deegen
With Rigor for All, Carol Jago
Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips, Mignon Fogarty
Inside the Reader's Writer's Notebook, Linda Rief
Illuminating Texts, Jim Burke
What's the Big Idea, Jim Burke
Wide Awake: A Memoir of Insomnia, Patricia Morrisoe
Broken, Karin Slaughter
Heat Wave, Richard Castle
Beyond Reach, Karin Slaughter
Kisscut, Karin Slaughter
Mockingbird, Kathryn Erskine
Undone, Karin Slaughter
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, Rhoda Janzen
This Time Together, Carol Burnett
Dead in the Family, Charlaine Harris
Write Beside Them, Penny Kittle
Supreme Justice, Phillip Margolin
61 Hours, Lee Child
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Stieg Larsson
Backseat Saints, Joshilyn Jackson
Sh*t My Dad Says, Justin Halpern (Soon to be a CBS sitcom starring William Shatner)
Movie Charts: Comedy Graphs of the Films You Love, Paul Copperwaite
Fever Dream, Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston
My Pet Virus, Shawn Decker
The Imperfectionists, Tom Rachman
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
Deception, Jonathan Kellerman
Big Gardens in Small Spaces
Entertainment Weekly magazine
Big Fish, Daniel Wallace
Lost Lake, Philip Margolin
The Tourist, Olen Steinhauer
The 3rd Degree, James Patterson
Spring 2010
Reunion
The Power of Half, Kevin Salwen
The Accidental Billionaires, Ben Mezrich
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
The Girl Who Played With Fire, Steig Larsson
Gone Tomorrow, Lee Child
The Angel's Game, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Columbine, Dave Cullen
Every now and then somebody asks me, "What do English teachers read, anyway?" The answer is we read the same sorts of things other people read. I go for a combination of books that I'm considering teaching or that deepen my understanding of what I teach, along with a lot of nonfiction and mystery/thrillers. I also read lots of newspaper and magazine articles.
Here is my book list with what I've finished most recently at the top. If you read any of these on your own, let me know. I would enjoy hearing what you think. Or check out my reading history and "shelf" (plan to read, am reading, have read) at www.shelfari.com/wordsmithtutor.
Summer 2013
The 5th Wave
A Question of Blood, Ian Rankin
The Hanging Gardens, Ian Rankin
Eleanor and Park, Rainbow Rowell
The Redeemer, Jo Nesbo
Inferno, Dan Brown
Tenth of December, George Saunders
Silver Linings Playbook, Matthew Quick
The Systematic Design of Instruction, Dick and Carey
Spring 2013
The Bat, Jo Nesbo
Finding Your Element, Dr. Ken Robinson
Daring Greatly, Brene Brown
Every Day, David Levithan
Sixpence House, Paul Collins
We the Animals, Justin Torres
Suspect, Robert Crais
Fortytude, Sarah Brokaw
Kinsey and Me, Sue Grafton
Crossed, Allie Condie
Winter 2012-13
Brain on Fire, Susannah Callahan
Cold Hit, Stephen J. Cannell
Monkey Mind, Daniel Smith
An Abundance of Katherine's, John Green
The Lineup,Otto Penzi
Origins, Jessica Khoury
The Nightmare, Lars Keplar
Designated Fat Girl
The Uninvited Guests, Sadie Jones
The Ice Station, Matt Reilly
The Lifeboat, Charlotte Rogan
A Rule Against Murder, Louise Penny
A Beautiful Mystery, Louise Penny
The Black Box, Michael Connelly
The Third Gate, Lincoln Child
Lost at Sea, Jon Ronson
The Art Forger, B.A. Shapiro
Blind Goddess, Anne Holt
In One Person, John Irving
The Other Woman, Hank Phillips
Quiet, Susan Cain
The Bone Bed, Patricia Cornwell
Two Graves, Preston & Child
Beautiful Ruins, Jess Walter
Escaping Into the Open: Writing True, Elizabeth Berg
Radio Shangri-La, Jo Napoli
Phantom, Jo Nesbo
Book Love, Penny Kittle
The Lover's Dictionary, David Levitan
Fall 2012
Zoo, James Patterson
You Are Not So Smart
Night Watch, Linda Fairstein
A Wanted Man, Lee Child
Last to Die, Tess Gerritsen
Bones are Forever, Kathy Reichs
The Rise of the Governor, Robert Kirkman
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe (reread)
Baking Cakes in Kigali, Gaile Parkin (reread)
Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton (reread)
Kaffir Boy, Mark Mathabane (reread)
Winter's Tales, Isak Dinesen
Storm of Swords, George RR Martin (well that took a long time)
Defending Jacob
How to Be a Woman, Catitlin Moran
Summer 2012
Criminal, Karin Slaughter
Metaphors & Analogies, Rick Wormeli
Text Complexity: Raising RIgor in Reading, Nancy Frey
Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
Wild, Cheryl Strayed
Thinking Fast and Slow,
The Secret Life of Pronouns, James Pennebaker
The Red Book,
The Shallows (reread), Nick Carr
The Language of Flowers, Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Book of Lost Fragrances, MJ Rose
Pathways to the Common Core (reread), Lucy Calkins
Common Core Curriculum Maps (reread), English Language Arts
The Leopard, Jo Nesbo
The Columbus Affair, Steve Berry
The Jefferson Key, Steve Berry
The Lantern,
The Emperor's Children, Claire Messup
Nemesis, Jo Nesbo
The Little Blue Book, George Lakoff
The Woodcutter, Reginald Hill
Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself, Alan Alda
The Storytelliing Animal: How Stories Make Us Human, Gottschlatt
Caught, Harlan Coben
Vigilante, Stephen J. Cannell
Slipping Into Paradise: Why I Live in New Zealand
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
Kaffir Boy, Mark Mathabane
Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton
Imagine, Jonathan Lehrer
Say Goodbye, Lisa Gardner
The Delilah Complex, MJ Rose
Jake, Reinvented, Gordon Korman
The Headhunters, Jo Nesbo
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair
Spring 2012 (plus summer reading vetting)
Excavation, James Rollins
The Death Cure, James Dashner
Pathway to the Common Core, Lucy Calkins
Amazonia, James Rollins
Ice Hunt, James Rollins
Gun Games, Faye Kellerman
The Scorch Trials, James Dashner
The Devil Colony, James Rollins
A Clash of Kings, George RR Martin
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, Mindy Kaling
The Breaking Point, Susan Shellenbarger
Heat Rises, Richard Castle
Victims, Jonathan Kellerman
My African Diary, Bill Bryson
52 Small Changes, Brett Blumenthal
Cohesive Writing, Carol Jago
Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi (reread)
Straight on till Morning, Mary Lovell (reread)
West With the Night, Beryl Markham (reread)
Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen (reread)
Baking Cakes in Kigali (reread), Gail Parkin
Text Lesson Content Area Reading, Harvey Daniels
So What Do They Really Know?, Cris Tovani
Content Area Writing, Jim Burke
Darkness, My Old Friend, Lisa Unger
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, Alexandra Fuller
Lost in Shangri-La, Michael Zuckoff
Focus, Mike
A Long Way Gone (reread), Ishmael Beah
I am Nujood, Age 10, Divorced, Nujood Ali
The Bookseller of Kabul (reread), Asne Seierstad
The Kite Runner (reread), Khaled Hosseini
And Then There Were None (reread), Agatha Christie
The Devil's Star, Jo Nesbo
Children of the Storm, Elizabeth Peters
The Drop, Michael Connelly
Effective Instruction, Jim Burke
Write Like This: Teaching Real World Writing Through Model and Mentor Texts, Kelly Gallagher
Drama: An Actor's Education, John Lithgow
The Maze Runner, J. Dashner
Winter 2011-2012
Strip Jack, Ian Rankin
1222, Anne Holt
Red Mist, Patricia Cornwell
Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire, Rafe Esquith
V is for Vengeance, Sue Grafton
Explosive Eighteen, Janet Evanovich
Knots and Crosses, Ian Rankin
Altar of Eden, James Rollins
I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar
Tooth and Nail, Ian Rankin
Evil at Heart, Chelsea Cain
If Chins Could Kill, Bruce Campbell
The Black Book, Ian Rankin
Cold Vengenace, Richard Preston and Lincoln Child
I Am Half Sick of Shadows, Alan Bradley
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
Stories I Only Tell My Friends, Rob Lowe
Miss Perregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
That is All, John Hodgman
The Litigators, John Grisham
Fall 2011
Ms. Hempel Chronicles,
The Ghost Writer, Robert Harris
Tomb of the Golden Bird, Elizabeth Peters
One False Move, Harlan Coben
The Hypnotist, Lars Kepler
Unspeak, Stephen Poole
Doing School
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Guardian of the Horizon, Elizabeth Peters
51/50 The Magical Adventures of a Single Life, Kristen McGuiness
The Family Fang
Before I Go To Sleep, Watson
The Golden One, Elizabeth Peters
Summer 2011
He Thunders in the Sky, Elizabeth Peters
More Six-Word Memoirs, Smith Magazine
Smokin' Seventeen, Janet Evanovich
The Happiness Project, Gretchen
The Paris Wife
Background Knowledge, Fisher and Frey
Teaching Argument Writing, George Hillocks, Jr
The Fifth Witness, Michael Connelly
With Rigor for All: Teaching Reading and the Common Core Standards 2nd ed., Carol Jago
If You Ask Me (and you won't), Betty White
The Ice Princes, Camilla
The Falcon at the Portal, Elizabeth Peters
Baking Cakes in Kigali, Gaile Parkin
Teaching English by Design, Peter Smagorinsky
Crossing the Heart of Africa, Julian
The Snowman, Jo Nesbo
The Silent Girl, Tess Gerritsen
The Curse of the Pharoahs, Elizabeth Peters
State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
Hold Tight, Harlan Coben
Seeing a Large Cat, Elizabeth Peters
Back Spin, Harlan Coben
Sixkill, Robert Parker
The Emperor's Tomb, Steve Berry
The Weird Sisters, Eleanor Brown
Fallen, Karin Slaughter
Sandstorm, James Rollins
Moonwalking with Einstein, Foer
Damages, Alex Kava
Gideon's Sword, Preston and Child
A Red Herring Without Mustard, Alan Bradley
Bossypants, Tina Fey
The Psychopath Test, Jon Ronson
This is a Book, Demetri Martin
Late Spring 2011
The Mummy Case, Elizabeth Peters
The Hippopotomus Pool, Elizabeth Peters
The Curse of the Pharoahs, Elizabeth Peters
The Last Camel Dies at Noon, Elizabeth Peters
127 Hours Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Aron Ralston
SO Many Books, SO Little Time, Sara Nelson
Spring 2011 (and Summer Reading vetting)
Naked Heat, Richard Castle
Matched, Allison Condie
The Kind Diet, Alicia Silverstone
One False Move, Alex Kava
Just One Look, Harlan Coben
Crocodile on the Sandbank, Elizabeth Peters
The Deeds of the Disturber, Elizabeth Peters
The Ape Who Guards the Balance, Elizabeth Peters
The Lion in the Valley, Elizabeth Peters
The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog, Elizabeth Peters
The Serpent on the Crown, Elizabeth Peters
Mystery, Jonathan Kellerman
The Scarpetta Factor, Patricia Cornwell
Exposed, Alex Kava
The Sentry, Robert Crais
A Necessary Evil, Alex Kava
The Soul Catcher, Alex Kava
The Strain, Guillermo Del Toro
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
Unbroken, Lauren Hillebrand
The Murder of King Tut, James Patterson
I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I want to be Your Class President, Josh Lieb
Theater Geek, Mickey Rapkin
The Inner Circle, Brad Meltzer
Map of Bones, James Rollins
Winter 2010-2011
Split Second, Alex Kava
A Perfect Evil, Alex Kava
Wire in the Blood, Val McDermid
Packing for Mars, Mary Roach
Mermaid's Singing, Val McDermid
Black Order, James Rollins
Ice Cold, Tess Gerritsen
The Hypnotist, MJ Rose
Haunt Me Still, Jennifer Lee Carrell
Book Lust to Go, Nancy Pearl
More Book Lust, Nancy Pearl
Gravity, Tess Gerritsen
Bloodstream, Tess Gerritsen
The Keepsake, Tess Gerritsen
The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag, Alan Bradley
Tools & Texts, Jim Burke
The Prince of Mists, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Alice I Have Been,
Reading for Themselves, Deborah Appleman
The Bone Garden, Tess Gerritsen
Ape House, Sara Gruen
The Mephisto Club, Tess Gerritsen
Vanish, Tess Gerritsen
The Sinner, Tess Gerritsen
Worth Dying For, Lee Child
The Crossing Places
The Apprentice, Tess Gerritsen
The Surgeon, Tess Gerritsen
Reversal, Michael Connelly
Life Support, Tess Gerritsen
Testimony, Anita Shreve
Image Grammar
Voice Lessons
Night Sins, Tami Hoag
The Wave, Susan Casey
Virals, Kathy Reichs
Fall 2010
Live to Tell, Lisa Gardner
Unbearable Lightness, Portia deRossi
Liar's Lullaby, Meg Gardiner
Dexter is Delicious, Jeff Lindsay
i know i am but what are you?, Samantha Bee
The Magicians, Lev Grossman
Slave, Mende Nazer
Sizzling Sixteen, Janet Evanovich
The Shallows, Nick Carr
Body Work, Sara Paretsky
Dirty Sexy Politics, Megan McCain
Faithless, Karin Slaughter
Hangman, Faye KellermanIndelible, Karin SlaughterLet the Great World Spin, ColinA Cold Fear, Karin SlaughterMockingjay, Suzanne CollinsSpider Bones, Kathy ReichsShutter Island, Dennis Lehane (reread)The Liar's Club, Mary KarrCatching Fire, Suzanne Collins
Summer 2010
Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett
Crafting Expository Argument, Deegen
With Rigor for All, Carol Jago
Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips, Mignon Fogarty
Inside the Reader's Writer's Notebook, Linda Rief
Illuminating Texts, Jim Burke
What's the Big Idea, Jim Burke
Wide Awake: A Memoir of Insomnia, Patricia Morrisoe
Broken, Karin Slaughter
Heat Wave, Richard Castle
Beyond Reach, Karin Slaughter
Kisscut, Karin Slaughter
Mockingbird, Kathryn Erskine
Undone, Karin Slaughter
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, Rhoda Janzen
This Time Together, Carol Burnett
Dead in the Family, Charlaine Harris
Write Beside Them, Penny Kittle
Supreme Justice, Phillip Margolin
61 Hours, Lee Child
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Stieg Larsson
Backseat Saints, Joshilyn Jackson
Sh*t My Dad Says, Justin Halpern (Soon to be a CBS sitcom starring William Shatner)
Movie Charts: Comedy Graphs of the Films You Love, Paul Copperwaite
Fever Dream, Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston
My Pet Virus, Shawn Decker
The Imperfectionists, Tom Rachman
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
Deception, Jonathan Kellerman
Big Gardens in Small Spaces
Entertainment Weekly magazine
Big Fish, Daniel Wallace
Lost Lake, Philip Margolin
The Tourist, Olen Steinhauer
The 3rd Degree, James Patterson
Spring 2010
Reunion
The Power of Half, Kevin Salwen
The Accidental Billionaires, Ben Mezrich
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
The Girl Who Played With Fire, Steig Larsson
Gone Tomorrow, Lee Child
The Angel's Game, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Columbine, Dave Cullen